in east jerusalem city officials have given an initial green light to the building of fifteen hundred new homes in a jewish settlement on what the u.n. considers occupied palestinian learned the new netanyahu called jerusalem the eternal capital saying israelis should be united there but palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state and the threatening to take the matter to the u.n. security council israeli officials meanwhile say they're going to discuss plans for another four and a half thousand homes in two other settlements this week the push for expansion was announced by israel after the u.n. upgraded palestine to a normal member observer state to step towards recognizing its statehood equality campaign and party hirshman says the plans of threatening hopes for a two state solution it seems very clear that it was a retaliatory effort we should also talk about as though in the context of calming israeli elections there is clearly a lot of political cash aid to be gained from making these very bold and aggressive announcements of the u.n. resolution and